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Tell Wal-Mart to stop selling religious violence

Posted on: December 11, 2006 - 4:48pm

MattShizzle

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Tell Wal-Mart to stop selling religious violence

This is a letter to them to tell them to stop selling the "Left behind" video game, in which the player attempts to convert people to Christianity, or kill them if they won't convert. This is from the Campaign to Defend the Constitution.

Um, I'm thinking they have a right to sell it if they want. Why campaign against this alone? There's hundreds of violent video games that Wal-mart sells. I don't think this is really a productive campaign ...

There is a difference between video games such as conflictional wars...like WWII and Desert Storm, even Terrorism...but when you have games where it pits one set of poeple against another in a racist or prejudice fashion, it goes beyond normal violence.

A game like "Left Behind" is no different then games where the plot is for white colonists to be sent to africa and capture and trade blacks as slaves. Or worse yet...hunting down the Underground Rail Road. Or for Nazi's to run around and capture or kill Jews. These are the types of games which are a lot worse then your so-called violent games...like Call of Duty or fantasy violent games like "Killzone".

They have a right to sell it, but then we have the right to complain or boycott them. Even though it's from the Campaign to Defend the Constitution, it's not a constitutional issue, it's a consumer complaint issue. Can you imagine the response if Hamas made a video game where you were a suicide bomber killing Jews and Christians? Or the KKK made one spouting their views?

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Most wars have been started due to hatred of some sort and the biased positions of the "heros" of such tales is reinforced by the game no matter if it is racist, driven by greed, religious or by some other ingroup/outgroup perspective. We have games based on the current war, and historical ones. I don't really see much difference between some of the fuels for those wars as I see in this. To me, the hatred and propagation of violence towards the social outgroup is still evil, no matter if it is due to this religious violence or placed in the other contexts.

I've never been one to try and force a store into selling something they chose not to. Or the other way around.
But one thing I've noticed is that the christian right in America sure is boycott happy. And WAL*MART listens to them. SO I can see why someone would want to "counter-ban" the Xtians.
Think of all the things WAL*MART has stopped carrying due to outside pressure.

I don't care enough to boycott this game..... There are WAY crappier games that I'd be happier banning.
Any Barbie game is pretty bad. There are many bad, bad games. If it sucks, people won't buy them.Example